Synodic month length 29.32 days

Length of current 465 lunation is 29 days, 7 hours and 44 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2037. It is 25 minutes shorter than next lunation 466 length.

Lunation length shorter than mean

Length of current synodic month is 5 hours shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 9 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.

Lunar orbit position on 24 August 2037 Monday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠338.4°

This lunation true anomaly is ∠338.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠354.5°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Moon before apogee

11 days after point of perigee on 12 August 2037 at 17:37 in ♍ Virgo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 28 August 2037 at 00:28 in ♈ Aries.

Distance to Moon 400 827 km

Moon after descending node

1 day after its descending node on 22 August 2037 at 23:10 in ♑ Capricorn, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 12 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 6 September 2037 at 10:34 in ♋ Cancer.

Draconic month

Moon after southern standstill

2 days after previous South standstill on 21 August 2037 at 14:16 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-21.390°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠21.473° in the next northern standstill on 5 September 2037 at 06:20 in ♋ Cancer.